[CentOS] Squid +Yum = apt-cacher?

[Florin Andrei]

Lorenzo wrote:
> So mrepo and PXE boot are really nice and funny, but they don't solve at 
> all my need of bandwidth saving.

Why don't you create your own repo mirror? That's what I used to do, 
works pretty well.

Just pick a file server with enough disk space, mirror a whole repo once 
(*), then point all your systems to the internal mirror.
The mirror is polling external repos once a day or something like that 
and only transfers files when something new comes up. IIRC, lftp can do 
that out of the box.

(*) - the base repo does not have to be mirrored (downloaded), you can 
probably reconstruct it from the install CDs / DVD. You only have to 
download the updates repo, and even that only once.

The internal repo mirror is a classic solution that works fairly well in 
many cases.

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Florin Andrei

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